Cool tools for profs

[wuapinmon]

I went to a panel at a conference today, and here are some pretty cool websites that can be used in a language setting, or have many other potential applications. Just thought some of you might not know about these:

http://www.fotobabble.com/
(add sound to a photo; I'm making a valentine with this baby)

http://typewith.me/
(group document editor--great for seeing who did what on a project)

http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Make a video of your desktop (great for explaining how to do something)

http://blabberize.com/
Make any photo with a mouth talk.

http://voicethread.com/
WOW! You can post a photo or video, and then have students make voice and text comments on it. Very useful for say, posting a photo of a fruit market, and assigning each of them to say one fruit that they see. You can then save the file as a movie, and play it for the class, or so you can grade them.

http://www.google.com/voice
Free phone number for voice mail. You can forward it to your cell, and then call your own number and have it call someone back. No one can know your home/personal cell #. Very cool, and it's free. You can also call any number in USA and Canada free. (better than Skype)

http://twiducate.com/
Twitter for the classroom. Controlled audience, able to sort by commenter, tweeter, liker. Awesome stuff here for a communicative approach

http://www.voxopop.com/
Great tool for audal comprehension and oral expression

http://hootcourse.com/
This uses facebook and twitter as teaching tools. Not sure about it yet, but it could be promising.

[fusnik]

Social media the new dot com boom.

[Sleeping in EQ]

Thanks, banana man. I've been tweeting with my students, but it's annoying when some crass, capitalistic opportunist tries to follow (stalk) me so I'll buy whatever it is he is selling.